Top 10 Beaches in Phuket
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(15 km from town)
Phuket’s most developed beach offers numerous leisure, sporting, shopping
and recreational options along its 3-km long cresent bay .. read more |
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(20 & 17 km from town)
The second largest of Phuket’s tourist beaches. Large resort complexes line
the road behind of the shoreline, but the long, broad beach itself has no development .. read more |
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(20 & 17 km from town)
Beautiful Kata is a scenic gem, its clear water flanked by hills, and picturesque
Bu island sits offshore .. read more |
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(20 & 17 km from town)
South of Kata is Kata Noi, a smaller beach with only a few hotels and little other
development. The beach is superb. Many fish inhabit the rocks and corals along the
beachless shoreline stretching south
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(18 km from town)
South of Kata Noi and north of Promthep Cape, Naiharn is not Phuket’s longest
beach, but it borders the most gorgeous lagoon on the island. The middle
of the beach is dominated by the Samnak Song Nai Han monastery .. read more |
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The beach is a favoured spot for witnessing sunsets. The northern end of
Kamala Beach is suitable for swimming. Whilst Kamala doesn’t attract tourists in
the same numbers as other places it has a certain niche .. read more |
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The name means Lion’s Point. The beach is in a small, curving bay with rocky
headlands at the foot of forest-fringed cliffs and is among Phuket’s most beautiful
spots .. read more |
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Just north of Patong Bay, starting from about the Novotel Resort Hotel Patong
to Thavorn Bay Resort, this area consists of rocky but quiet beaches, and an
interesting road leading up into hills with high viewpoints .. read more |
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(11 km from town)
Chalong’s muddy East Coast shoreline makes it rather unsuitable for swimming but
it’s an ideal and natural spot for yacht mooring .. read more |
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(10 km from town)
The southernmost tip of this cape is home to a Marine Biological Research
Centre and Phuket’s Aquarium where visitors may inspect several hundred exotic,
grotesque, and flamboyantly .. read more |
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(24 km from town)
Evergreen trees line this small, curving bay, beneath the foothills north of
Kamala. Surin is home to Phuket’s first golf course, a nine-hole course laid out
more than sixty years ago during the reign of King Rama VII .. read more |
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Bangtao is a large open bay with one of Phuket’s longest beaches. It was
once used for tin mining, but has since been developed into a luxury resort. Most
of it is occupied by the Laguna complex .. read more |
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This quiet bay nestled at the foot of high hills has a fine strip of sand. There is
some accommodation but virtually no other business.
How to get there : Located between Bang Thao Bay and Nai Yang Beach, Nai
Ton Beach can be reachd by taking Thepkrasatri Road .. read more |
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(30 km from town)
This is where the National Park office is located. The beach itself is on a long curving bay lined with evergreens that provide shade to picnickers. The large coral reef is home to many different species of fish .. read more |
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(17 km from town)
The palm-fringed beach is best known for ‘sea gypsies,’ a formerly nomadic
fishing minority believed to be of Melanesian descent. Rawai holds the distinction of
being the very first tourist beach on Phuket .. read more |
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Just south of Chalong, , there are several low-key and peaceful bungalows but the
beach is muddy at low tide, when you can almost walk halfway to Koh Lone. Friendship Beach Resort .. read more |
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Just south of the Phuket Island Resort hotel, and north of Rawai is this small
rocky bay, popular with Thais at the weekend. This sheltered, 150 metre long,
boulder-framed beach is the ideal picnic spot as from midday on it is shady and
cool .. read more |
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(40 km from town)
Many kilometers of deserted beach characterize Mai Khao where there is
little tourist business. The water is fine for swimming during the dry season; the rainy
season brings big waves and strong .. read more |
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Promthep Cape is a headland forming the extreme south end of Phuket. “Prom” is Thai for the Hindu term, “Brahma,” signifying purity, and “Thep” means
‘God.’ Local villagers used to refer to the cape as “Leam Jao” .. read more |
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Often overlooked due to its proximity to Naiharn, and because the connecting
road runs through and under the Meridien Phuket Yacht Club, Ao Sein has a wan
air of long lost glamour to it .. read more |
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